Wai Pong-yu (born 1982, Hainan) moved to Hong Kong with his family at the age of two. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006. Wai has developed his oeuvre of ink art from ballpoint pen on paper, spinning the thread of his emotion and mind continuously as one line as it multiplies in rhizomatic manner. His subjects often relate to notions of the cosmos, time, and nature experienced across fields of juxtapositions and metaphysical forms.
Wai’s work has been collected internationally by public museums and institutions, including the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford. His recent exhibitions include his collaborative project with Hung Fai, “Same Line Twice,” at Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong, 2017; “The Spirit of Ink: 12 Hong Kong Artists,” Sotheby’s Gallery, Hong Kong, 2013; “New Ink, An Exhibition of Ink Art by Post 1970 Artists from Yiqingzhai Collection” Sotheby’s Gallery, Hong Kong, 2013. Solo exhibitions include “Moment of Truth - The Synergy of Ink” (2013) and “Ceaseless Lines” (2009) both at Grotto Fine Art, Hong Kong. His works have also been shown at Art Basel (2014-2019), Ink Asia (2015-2019), Fine Art Asia (2014-2017), Asia Week, New York (2015) and SCOPE, New York (2012, 2013).
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Hung Fai and Wai Pong-yu: Same Line Twice
June 2, 2021Working simultaneously on the same sheet of xuan paper, the two artists unfold a prolonged visual dialog. Using a ruler, Hung traces parallel lines that...Read more -
Hung Fai and Wai Pong-yu: Same Line Twice 23
June 25, 2020Title: Same Line Twice 23 Date: June 12, 2020 Location: Waters around Middle Island, Hong Kong Participants: Hung Fai, Wai Pong-yu, Alan Yeung, Henry Au-Yeung...Read more
